Sleep Like A World Sports Champion

Hours spent in the weight room, interval training, speed training, and a well-balanced diet all affect athletic performance. But, there’s one common factor that’s often forgotten – sleep. When you consider the strain that an athlete’s body undergoes during a competition, it should come as no surprise that adequate rest is necessary for peak performance. The Sports Techie community blog encourages everyone to reflect on your sleep habits, especially if you are an amateur, elite or professional athlete. Optimizing sleep is the name of game.

Improve Athletic Performance with Better (and More) Sleep

Sleep Enhances Athletic Performance

How to Take Your Passion for Sports Further with a Drone

Sports and tech make such a good team that they influence each other every moment. While drones develop into new shapes and technologies, their prices also lower for the end customer. Sports enthusiasts – such as you and us – now can use the best drones in so many ways that they even become players in specialized competitions. Drones influence the way we see and even practice our hobby. Some of the best drones can capture matches and championships from unique perspectives. The Sports Techie community blog adheres to responsible drone flying and usage.

Panasonic Projection Solutions at Game of Thrones Premier Party, Millennium Park, Rio Olympics, and More

Panasonic USA projection solutions are designed for the immersive entertainment experience, not just in sports but any live entertainment venue or permanent facility. Via high-res images, digital signage and new flag mapping, projectors display visually enhanced imagery designed to augment events, sales and corporate partnerships fans are utterly delirious about...

Tips to save money can be found virtually anywhere these days. Pack your own lunch, skip the morning Starbucks, etc., but did you know that your spending habits also affect your wealth? Recent studies show that if you kick a couple of bad habits, you can improve both your health and your wealth. The Sports Techie community blog welcomes contributions such as the following infographic.

To no surprise, smoking tops the list as one of the worst habits financially and for your health. With the average cost of a cigarette costing 31 cents, the cost of cigarettes alone can cost over 1,300 dollars a year. The financial commitment doesn’t stop with just buying a pack of smokes...

Use Spartan Race Father’s Day promotion code SPARTANDAD and get 50% off gear, $69 races and 2 free digital books with any race purchase (Spartan Up! & Spartan Fit!) I advise racers and fellow Dad’s to first figure out your race type, consider the endurance events, enter your children in the kid races, and for sure study up on the course obstacles. Then go out into nature and crush a 2017 Spartan Sprint and Spartan Fit using the discount code. When that works as planned, consider doing a Spartan Super, Spartan Beast and Spartan Trifecta, a Spartan Honor, along with a Stadium Series and Mountain Series event...

There is no doubt that everyone wants their ride to be spotless and shining. Clean cars are not only pleasing to the eye, but also help in keeping vehicles rust-free prolonging their life. After each race, your car is bound to become filthy with mud, dirt and grime. But did you know that cleaning your cars is more than taking the hose and using soap? It is also about awareness of how cleaning can impact the environment. The Sports Techie community blog is excited about day light savings time beginning this Sunday meaning you can do more off roading during daylight hours while living a more sustainable lifestyle all day and year long.

INsight TV is a reality, entertainment and sports channel that takes the viewer on an adventurous journey to explore and interact with incredible stories.

INsight TV reality, entertainment, sports, and travel, Ultra HD channel has partnered with NeuLion to launch their OTT Ultra HD Entertainment Digital Platform enabling enhanced streaming of their linear and non-linear broadcasts across Europe and worldwide. The global factual entertainment channel and the leading technology product and service provider are a business match made for the Sports Techie community blog readers and followers...

Canada Has The Perfect Places to Learn How To Master Off-Road Skills No Matter Your Skill Set

Grave Digger, after Monster Jam in St Louis, MO, 2014.

If you are not part of the off-road revolution, you may not know what you’re missing. Thousands of outdoor motoring enthusiasts take to non-paved trails around Canada every year. Whether you choose to go off road in 4×4 low or 4×4 high mode, the slightly wild, ofttimes wonderful world of off-roading offers an amazing assortment of outdoor adventure for everyone from beginner to expert. The Sports Techie community blog loves outdoors and the technology used in these vehicles makes the driving on muddy, steep and epic trail or roads even more fun for newbies to the sport.

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American Express Brings Back Hawks Island to the 12s on the Puget Sound

AMEX Brings Back Hawks Island to the 12s on the Puget Sound, credit: Mat Heyward and Suzi Pratt / Getty Images for American Express.

Hawks Island presented by American Express for card member Seattle Seahawks fans known as 12s helped the team win a close NFC game on Sunday over the Atlanta Falcons. Neither typhoon winds, nor rain nor a nearly unstoppable superstar named Julio Jones could stop the exclusive pre-game event on Pier 66 of hundreds of people from having fun and enjoying this ultimate AMEX sport sponsor-driven fan experience. The Sports Techie community blog represents the pulse of the 12thman since I am one...

Bionic Runner is the world’s only high intensity, non-impact, running-specific trainer.

What is the Bionic Runner? It is a non-impact cross-trainer most have never heard of but those that train with it are setting Masters aged world records when many older athletes either taper down their run mileage or stop running all together. The Sports Techie community blog chatted from Atlanta to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, via Skype with Steve Cranitch, founder of Run4, the sports tech company that invented the game-changing outdoor bike. The Bionic Runner is different than an elliptical trainer because it closely mimics the natural gait and timing of running...